“And if the elites try and steal the nomination from Trump, the riots at the ’68 Democratic Convention will look like a garden party”.
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Republicans can either throw their weight behind a candidate who rejects their policy goals or go on trying to stop him in the hope that he falls short of the majority required, enabling them to put forward another candidate at the July convention in Cleveland to formally pick their candidate for the November 8 election.
The billionaire businessman emphasized, though, that he expects to secure the 1,237 delegates needed to win the party’s nomination ahead of the Republican National Convention in July. Next up is Arizona on Tuesday, with 58 delegates at stake.
The Republican side of the Missouri race also was tight, with Trump leading US Senator Ted Cruz of Texas by 1,726 out of more than 935,000 total votes. If he loses both, the bar rises substantially: he would need 64 percent of all the remaining delegates.
Mr. Kasich collected his first win of the primary season Tuesday, besting Donald Trump in Ohio.
John Kasich, buoyed after his home state delivered his first presidential primary victory, declared Wednesday that his chances of clinching the Republican nomination are just as good as his opponents. But they are left with a pair of deeply flawed alternatives: Mr Cruz, who has the second-most delegates but is reviled by many party leaders, and Mr Kasich, who has so far run the equivalent of a favourite-son campaign, winning only Ohio. He walloped Sen. Marco Rubio in the first-term senator’s home state of Florida on Tuesday, forcing Rubio from the race.
The Republican frontrunner did not get the sweep he wanted, losing OH to Kasich. “What we decide as Americans, as Republicans on the floor during the convention is going to be for the world to see”.
That’s because there are too few winner-take-all primaries for Cruz to collect enough delegates.
“They can’t come in to OH with the philosophy they have and win”, Kasich said.
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Noting that he’s “representing many millions of people”, he told Chris Cuomo: “If you disenfranchise those people, and you say, “I’m sorry, you’re 100 votes short”…” He won 36 percent of the vote in OH, 39 percent in IL, 40 percent in North Carolina, 41 percent in Missouri and 46 percent in Florida. I’m still not convinced Trump will win.
